Sounds Like Carville Just Called Ben Carson 'Chauncey Gardiner'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Can you imagine the liberal outrage if a Republican called a prominent Dem candidate "Chauncey Gardiner," the simple soul from the Peter Sellers film Being There? The cries of racism might well cost such a hapless Republican his job.

But don't expect James Carville to pay any price. On today's With All Due Respect, Carville said that a frustrated Bush "can't believe that Chauncey Gardiner [laughs] and Trump and all these people are running ahead of him." Given that Carson and Trump are the two front-runners, and that Carson, while brilliant, is soft-spoken, there would seem little doubt that Carville meant his Chauncey crack for Carson.

View the video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[sparklite2]

I think I’ve called him that myself.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Carville thinks he’s so funny. What if a Republican called a prominent African-American Dem candidate “Chauncey Gardiner?”

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.

[Awgie]

I intensely dislike serpent head and that lifeless wench Mary Matalin he married. I will never understand how a relationship like that exists. I would wed a martian before a liberal democrat.

[tumblindice]

[Riding in a car for the first time] Chance the Gardener: This is just like television, only you can see much further.

[miss marmelstein]

So has my husband. I think it’s unfair, though.

[DaveyB]

That is a micro-aggressive dog whistle from the vile one.

[Liberty Valance]

President “Bobby”: Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?
[Long pause]

Chance the Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.

President “Bobby”: In the garden.

Chance the Gardener: Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.

President “Bobby”: Spring and summer.

Chance the Gardener: Yes.

President “Bobby”: Then fall and winter.

Chance the Gardener: Yes.

Benjamin Rand: I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we’re upset by the seasons of our economy.

Chance the Gardener: Yes! There will be growth in the spring!

[sparklite2]

I think it’s fair in the sense that Chauncey’s comments on gardening were mistakenly for deep metaphors of successful governance, much as Carson’s utterings are so meta and unspecific they are a thin veneer over ... nothing.

[tumblindice]

[upon walking out of an elevator]
Chance the Gardener: That was a very small room.

But the music really rocked.

[miss marmelstein]

He says substantive stuff. He just says it in that Chauncey Gardiner way - I think he always sounds more like Weezer in the old Little Rascals series.

[windsorknot]

Calling James Carville Gollum works for me. He’s a puke.

[Liberty Valance]

Funny stuff. I think it’s a great movie. Pretty tame for Carville actually.

[Labyrinthos]

More articulate than anything out of the nouth of JEB of late.

[tumblindice]

Yeah. Way I see it, once the sense of humor goes, we lose.
Lefties are some of the most humorless folks I know.

[VinL]

I think I’ve called him that myself.
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[jaydubya2]

"The cries of racism might well cost such a hapless Republican his job."

I don't see the racism angle that Newsbusters is going for...

[sparklite2]

Probably not. The last original thought I had was, “Voting is acting white.”

[Liberty Valance]

Agreed.

[Sacajaweau]

I called him that a couple hours ago.

I also called him a red herring and a secret Dem.